PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE THIS PETITION TO HAVE CASEY ANTHONY TRIED IN FEDERAL COURT. CREATED 4/14/12.
Double jeopardy is subject the dual sovereignty doctrine. It states that a person can be tried for the same crime twice if he or she is being tried by more than one distinct, sovereign government. This means that a person could be tried by the federal government and by a state government for the same crime. Both entities are distinctly sovereign units that have their own sets of laws and their power derived from different sets of people.
The petition address the DOJ policy that guides them in deciding whether or not to bring federal charges against someone after a person has already been tried by a state
http://www.change.org/petitions/lanny-a-breuer-assistant-attorney-general-criminal-division-try-casey-anthony-in-federal-court-for-the-murder-of-her-daughter
Or go to change.org and search for BREUER
ZORN REPLY -- Why this obsession with the Casey Anthony case? It's not what we're talking about here, in any event.

I've tried to stay away from the broader character issues that have provided many of the atmospheric details in the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case. Whether either of the major players were or, in Zimmerman's case are less than model citizens and pure in thought and deed is unlikely to be r...

PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE THIS PETITION TO HAVE CASEY ANTHONY TRIED IN FEDERAL COURT. CREATED 4/14/12.
The petition addresses the DOJ policy that guides them in deciding whether or not to bring federal charges against someone after a person has already been tried by a state.
http://www.change.org/petitions/lanny-a-breuer-assistant-attorney-general-criminal-division-try-casey-anthony-in-federal-court-for-the-murder-of-her-daughter
Or go to change.org and search for BREUER

As I understand it, the prosecution of George Zimmerman will be based in large part on discrepancies and contradictions in the various accounts he gave to police of his fatal altercation with Trayvon Martin and the minutes leading up to it. If so, the Orlando Sentinel story headlined Several Geo...